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UVic Science @uvicscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Tiny ocean fossils are fundamental to our understanding of the climate system and how it has changed over the past 150 million years. Join us at our next Café Scientifique to hear all about the world of micropaleontology! 📅 Dec. 9, 2025, 7 p.m. 📍 The Mint 🔗 Details: ow.ly/56Sx50XxTlA

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Canadian graduate students... how do you feel about members of parliament going through your transcripts and the personal information you disclosed in your applications in order to question whether you deserved your fellowship or not? @supportourscience.bsky.social

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Support Our Science @supportourscience.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🎓 Calling Canadian grad students & postdocs! #VoicesForScience is a new campaign to spotlight advocacy for fair pay and better research support. Whether you’ve collected data, organized events, or driven change on campus — your voice matters. Share: forms.gle/neeWyHyMt7Zi... #SupportOurScience

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.

Displeased man, making a frowning face at his spouse taking the picture, standing next to a sign that says "Dirt Pile... HERE". Man is wearing a shirt with a Styracosaurus skull in the style of the jolly rodger flag.

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University of Victoria @uvic.ca · 10/10/2025

🚨 Big news! UVic researchers receive $1.13M from CFI-JELF to advance their work in climate and health innovation. These locally grounded projects are creating global impact, from BC’s alpine ecosystems to coastal communities and beyond. 🌍 ow.ly/sXrw50X9T4t

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Salary to Living Wage - only two points fall above the 1:1 line. A star indicates New Jersey Institute of Technology is almost to the 1:1 line!

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

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Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

So great to have @fraass.bsky.social in as a guest speaker for my first-year composition class today! Though I was horrified by his saying a Caribbean volcano had erupted "in the 1900s": I thought he meant the 1990s eruptions, WHEN I WAS OVER 20, but nope, 1902. Safe to call that the 1900s. #uvic

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Hah! The new running joke in all my classes and lab is that I'm old. "Back when this paper came out when I was in graduate school" "I hadn't been born yet" "Get out."

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Not that typesetting is that important as an aspect of the science, but as I was curious what was actually in there, the references are done inconsistently, lots of self citations, and it's just... ugly?

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I spent the first few days thinking "Nah, there's no way, the meds are just going to give me a panic attack since it's a stimulant", but feeling so calm after taking them was a pretty clear sign that it's correct. I hope you feel the same way!

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Yes, making a meme about this while I'm writing a paper is a clear sign that I'm not on the right dose yet, why do you ask?

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Also, holy shit, I _might_ have been misdiagnosed with Anxiety and not ADHD (or just anxiety and not both) when I was 20? How would my career have been different?

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It's really wild to be diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD in your 40's. Like, I didn't realize that my brain was supposed to work like this? The meds work so fast. 1 day you're fighting 13 trains of thought and the next it's fully calm and ordered inside your skull. Strangest experience.

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Pal(a)eoPERCS @palaeopercs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Jenny Rashall from Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/ (1/4)

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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

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Elizabeth Sibert, PhD @elizabethsibert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So excited to participate in this panel discussing the history and future of #PalaeoPERCS and the amazing, inclusive, and absolutely brilliant international community of early career pal(a)eo scientists! Please join us at 15:00 UTC today for this really important discussion!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I made a little tool to sync my papers in @paperpile.com with @obsidian.md. It generates a markdown file for each paper and should handle annoying things like paper renaming and deletion. I wish Paperpile would expose more data but the basic paper info gets imported. Please use, extend, enjoy!

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GitHub - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian: a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian

a simple tool to sync your papers from paperpile to obsidian - maria-antoniak/sync-paperpile-obsidian

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Eos @eos.org · 19/07/2025

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos

Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.

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Eos @eos.org · 10/07/2025

Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.

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Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth's Past - Eos

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs assessed offer annual salaries meeting basic living wages” Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)

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Tom Ezard @tomezard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

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Eos @eos.org · 03/07/2025

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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos

Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

To the non-expert, this will seem esoteric, so allow me to summarise: we have profoundly altered the distribution of nutient elements on the ocean, with a potentially profound impact on the life that lives in it.

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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports! We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing #ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness

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Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis

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UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences @seos-uvic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🧵🌊 Tiny ocean fossils called foraminifera or "forams" hold a deep record of Earth's climate past. By studying these beautiful microfossils in ocean sediment cores scientists like our own @fraass.bsky.social reveal how life and climate have changed over millions of years wdcnews6.com/the-history-...

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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils » Yale Climate Connections

Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how l...

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I use it in my intro geology class (in the “let’s talk about how batshit the geology is” sense). Hell, the undergrads in my department hosted a movie night with it.

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm used to academic spam at this point, but getting asked to review a paper about parental learning interventions in Kuwait because of my language skills (?) is a new one.

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you're coming to the @geosociety.bsky.social GSA meeting in San Antonio may I recommend this awesome field trip to visit the K/Pg boundary along the Brazos River and in a bunch of cores at the Gulf Coast Core Repository: store.geosociety.org/products/ft2...

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FT25CN408. Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Br

Full Title: Exploring The K/Pg Boundary in the Gulf of Mexico at the Brazos River Outcrops and the Gulf Coast Core Repository Endorsed by: GSA’s Planetary Geology, Geochronology, Mineralogy, Geochemis...

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Deadline for session, field trip, and short course proposals is July 18!

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Science denying know-nothing GOPers are trying (and in some cases succeeding) to ban fluoride in water based on anti-science BS. A new study shows a nationwide ban would bring a 7.5% increase in tooth decay and cost almost *10 billion dollars* over five years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems

This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs.

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thanks! Once I get it all together I'm very excited to mess around and figure out the different capabilities, since it's been a long time since our demo.

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Well, just the fancy one, the workhorses still haven't been bought because it's been difficult to wrangle quotes, but progress!

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

In the winter of '22, I wrote a plea (grant) to my institution to let me have some of our funding envelope to buy a fancy microscope and a bunch of workhorse microscopes. Years, a medical leave, several additional grant stages to both national and provincial level agencies, and it's here.

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A big feature here was work from @foradamifera.bsky.social and @anshumans.bsky.social, but because this was put out by the Annual Reviews magazine, they needed AREPS authors to be focused on.

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Jay T. Cullen @handle.invalid · 27/05/2025

🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I was on the local CBC radio station talking about our graduate stipend paper yesterday morning. There's a laundry list of things I wish I could have added or gotten to. Hard to fully explain through something as complex as Canadian graduate funding in just 8 minutes!

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Sorry, kids needed me last night. This matches up with our findings, UT and UBC have the ability to make cost of living work despite the extraordinary costs of living in those areas. Would be happy to see or collaborate on similar projects in non-NSERC fields, but would expect similar results

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The paper is much clearer in details, thread on social media not so much. When we focused on biology programs, if there were two, we picked whatever fit closest to ecology because we wanted to stay in NSERC funded territory.

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